How to copy or "Ghost" a drive

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Originally Posted by bryant

Bob, Do you ghost evrycouple of months.

My question was: Because it asks to completely erase the
ghosting drive before you start (can't have anything on it), what exactly do you do the next ghost copy you make, say next month. Do you have to erase everything clean again, and repeat the same process.

Also, second question: It does ask and recommends that you make a bootable disk, but not sure why if the drive is ghosted correctly. Do you make that boot disk as well?

I too use Acronis, because MTUSUPPORT told me to.

We used to sell Ghost, but Bryan likes Acronis better.

As for me, I backup my entire 80GB drive (C and D partitions) every month. I plug in my USB 100GB drive, run Acronis, select to backup and let it delete everything already on the backup drive. It has never asked me to make a Boot Disc, and I don't have a Floppy drive if it did!

I haven't had to test it out, and I'd have to remove my laptop internal drive to replace it. I guess, way down deep, this is unproven... except Bryan has used it far more than I... I think. I'll ask him to post his thoughts here.